Schlagwort: art installation

  • Technology meets creativity in two interactive art student projects

    Technology meets creativity in two interactive art student projects

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    Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and many modern disciplines increasingly blur those lines. Mónica Riki is an “electronic artist and creative coder” who embodies that idea: you might remember her and her incredible Arduino UNO R4-powered installations from our blog post last year. In addition to her artistic practice, her technology-forward approach inspires her work as an educator, as she helps her master’s students develop hybrid concepts that use microcontrollers, sensors, lights and a variety of different technologies to create interactive art pieces. The level of creativity that technology is able to unleash is readily apparent in two of her students’ projects: Flora and Simbioceno.

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    Flora, created by College of Arts & Design of Barcelona students Judit Castells, Paula Jaime, Daniela Guevara, and Mariana Pachón, is a board game in the form of an interactive art installation. It was inspired by nature, with gameplay occurring throughout a simulated ecosystem. An Arduino UNO R4 WiFi board handles the interactive elements, with additional hardware including NFC readers, motors and accompanying drivers, sensors, pumps, LEDs, and more. 

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf9-mkIkiGY?feature=oembed&w=500&h=375]

    Simbioceno, by Ander Vallejo Larre, Andrea Galano Toro, Pierantonio Mangia, and Rocío Gomez, also uses an UNO R4 WiFi. It consists of two ecosystems: one aquatic and one aerial-terrestrial. They exist in symbiosis, communicating and sharing resources as necessary. Hardware includes LEDs, pumps, and biofeedback sensors. The students put particular thought into the construction materials, many of which are recycled or biomaterials. 

    Both projects are interactive art and expressions of creativity. While they do integrate technology, that technology isn’t the focal point. Instead, the technology helps to bring the two experiences to life.Feeling inspired by this creative use of the Arduino platform? We hope you’ll develop your own projects and share them with us and the entire community: contact creators@arduino.cc or upload directly to Project Hub! You could be our next Arduino Star.

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  • Adorable robots mimic Internet cookies

    Adorable robots mimic Internet cookies

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    Arduino Team — February 10th, 2022

    If you’re like most people, you click “accept all” whenever a website asks you to allow cookies. That button is big and enticing, begging you to click so you can get to your content without thinking about the purpose of the cookies. That purpose is usually to serve you personalized ads, but you let the website track you because it asked you in a nice way. To replicate that effect in a tangible way, Guillaume Slizewicz built these Arduino-controlled robots.

    “Accept All” is an art installation Nemur, Belgium’s Le Pavillon. It consists of a few small wheeled robots that drive around the room. When they see a person, they scurry over to bump into that person’s shins. And people are happy to let them, because the robots are very cute. One has silly little horns. Another wears a grass hula skirt. Another looks like a jelly fish going through a goth phase. As with Internet cookies, people comply with the robots’ minor annoyance because they are pleasant.

    But, like cookies, these robots are tracking people. A Google Coral AI board peers at the world through a small camera and detects people by using an OpenCV script. When a robot sees someone, its Coral board sends a command to an Arduino via serial. The Arduino then controls drive motors that push the robot into the person’s legs. Slizewicz doesn’t actually collect data on the people his robots encounter. But the point is that he could and nobody would mind, since the robots are endearing.

    (Image credits: courtesy Guillaume Slizewicz)

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  • Interactive origami art with Raspberry Pi

    Interactive origami art with Raspberry Pi

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    Ross Symons is an incredible origami artist who harnessed Raspberry Pi and Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap board to bring his traditional paper creations to life in an interactive installation piece.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUX7ya_oAgw?feature=oembed&w=500&h=375]

    Video by White On Rice

    Touchy-feely

    The Pi Cap is “[a]n easy-to-attach add-on board that brings capacitive sensing to your Raspberry Pi projects.” Capacitive sensing is how touchscreens on your phone and tablet work: basically, the Pi Cap lets the Raspberry Pi know when something – in this case, an origami flower – is being touched.

    Lovely photo from Bare Conductive

    Aaaand relax

    Ross named his creation “Wonder Wall – an Origami Meditation Mural”. Visitors put on headphones next to the origami flower wall, and listen to different soothing sounds as the Pi Cap senses that one of the green flowers is being touched.

    The Raspberry Pi runs code from Python library PyGame to achieve the sound effects.

    Electric paint

    64 origami flowers were mounted to a canvas, a much lighter and more readiliy transportable option than a big wooden board.

    On the back of the board, the Pi Cap and Raspberry Pi connect to each origami flower with electric paint and copper tape. The electric paint “solders” the copper tape to the Pi Cap, and also allows for connections around corners.

    Drop a comment below if you’ve ever used electric paint in a project.

    Pi Cap board and electric paint
    The Pi Cap board connects to origami flowers with electric paint (being applied from the white tube) and copper tape. Photo from Bare Conductive

    Insta-cutie

    Check out Ross’s beautiful Instagram account @white_onrice. It’s full of incredible paper creations and inspired stop-motion animations. Our favourite is this little crane having a whale of a time.

    Lastly, make sure to follow White On Rice on YouTube for more mesmerising origami art.

    Website: LINK

  • Quick Fix — a vending machine for likes and followers

    Quick Fix — a vending machine for likes and followers

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    Sometimes we come across a project that just scores a perfect 10 on all fronts. This is one of them: an art installation using Raspberry Pi that has something interesting to say, does it elegantly, and is implemented beautifully (nothing presses our buttons like a make that’s got a professionally glossy finish like this).

    Quick Fix is a vending machine (and art installation) that sells social media likes and followers. Drop in a coin, enter your social media account name, and an army of fake accounts will like or follow you. I’ll leave the social commentary to you. Here’s a video from the maker, Dries Depoorter:

    Quick Fix – the vending machine selling likes and followers

    Quick Fix in an interactive installation by Dries Depoorter. The artwork makes it possible to buy followers or likes in just a few seconds. For a few euros you already have 200 of likes on Instagram. “Quick Fix “is easy to use. Choose your product, pay and fill in your social media username.

    There’s a Raspberry Pi 3B+ in there, along with an Arduino, powering a coin acceptor and some I2C LCD screens. Then there’s a stainless steel heavy-duty keyboard, which we’re lusting after (a spot of Googling unearthed this, which appears to be the same thing, if you’re in the market for a panel-mounted beast of a keyboard).

    This piece was commissioned by Pixelache, a cultural association from Helsinki, whose work looks absolutely fascinating if you’ve got a few minutes to browse. Thanks to them and to Dries Depoorter — I have a feeling this won’t be the last of his projects we’re going to feature here.

    Website: LINK

  • Beautiful and inspiring plinky-plonky conductivity

    Beautiful and inspiring plinky-plonky conductivity

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    Recently shared by Bare Conductive, Hwan Yun‘s interactive installation, Intuition, uses a Raspberry Pi and Bare Conductive tech to transport you to the calm wonder of Icelandic nature.

    Intuition (2017)

    Interactive sound installation electric paint on paper Listhús Gallery

    Incorporation Bare Conductive

    Bare Conductive’s water-based Electric Paint allows users to incorporate safe conductivity into their projects. With the use of a Raspberry Pi 3 and the brand’s Touch Board and Pi Cap, this conductivity can be upgraded to take distance, as well as touch, into consideration.

    bare conductive Hwan Yun Raspberry Pi

    Intuition

    For his installation, Hwan created several patterns on paper using Electric Paint, with six patterns connected to the Touch Board and a further six to the Pi Cap.

    This irregularity allows users to experiment, further exploring the sounds of nature that inspired the installation.

    bare conductive Hwan Yun Raspberry Pi

    The sounds themselves are less actual recordings and more a tribute to the way in which Hwan believes the picturesque beauty of the island communicates within itself.

    Getting done with #interactive #soundinstallation for #contemporaryart #exhibition. Using #bareconductive

    7 Likes, 1 Comments – HWANYUN (@_hwanyun_) on Instagram: “Getting done with #interactive #soundinstallation for #contemporaryart #exhibition. Using…”

    Follow Hwan

    If you’d like to see more installations from Hwan Yun, including behind-the-scenes posts from the creation of Intuition, be sure to follow him on Instagram. You can also learn more about his past and future projects on his website.

    Bare Conductive

    Bare Conductive products are available through many of our Approved Resellers, as well as the Bare Conductive website. As mentioned, their Conductive paint is not only water-based but also non-toxic, making it an ideal addition to any maker cupboard. For more inspiration when using Bare Conductive products, check out their Make page.

    Low-tech cardboard robot buggy

    And for more Bare Conductive products and Raspberry Pi makery, check out this low-tech Raspberry Pi robot by Clément Didier, previously covered on our blog.

    Website: LINK

  • Tape Art Installation: Dimensionalizing The Corner At Wiretap Brewing In Los Angeles

    Tape Art Installation: Dimensionalizing The Corner At Wiretap Brewing In Los Angeles

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    Tape Installation at Wiretap Brewing in Los Angeles: Dimensionalizing the Corner, 2018 by artist, Darel Carey

    Bending space with perception: Line sequences in varied configurations create an illusion of dimension. I call this Dimensionalization. Two dimensions can be perceived as three, and vice versa.

    More info: darelcarey.com

    Tape Art Installlation by Darel Carey

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